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One of the most wanted number plates that spells ‘TAXI’ to sell for £100,000

CALLING all cabbies, this is your moment to secure the most coveted plate on the market. The plate that spells "taxi" is heading to auction for the first time in 40 years.

The licence plate "TAX 1" has been in private ownership since the 1970s but is now up for grabs priced at £100,000. The rare DVLA plate is going under the hammer at Humbert & Ellis Auctioneers in Whittlebury, Northants.

Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert is expecting a lot of interest in the plate when it goes up for sale. And he reckons it won't just be cabbies looking to cash in.

He said: "Number plates with the lowest number of '1' always attract a premium and the letters that spell the word 'TAX', while ordinarily instilling fear in the hearts of most, will be highly sought after by tax experts, accountants or indeed taxi company owners.

"This number plate is available now and only now and could go into private ownership for another 40 years so this represents a real one-off investment opportunity for this rarest of UK number plates."

Should it shift for £100,000 it would be twice the price of the most expensive plate sold last year - with "JSK 1" bought for £56,200. But it'll still be well short of the priciest plate ever and wouldn't even crack the all time top 10 registration plates.

Plate "25 O" is the most expensive with a classic car dealer paying £518,480 in 2014 to fit to a £10million Ferrari 250 GT SWB.

The personalised number plate business is worth hundreds of millions of pounds each year with the DVLA raking in £111million last year alone.

The "TAX 1" sale takes place on February 22.

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